Growing Crops Under Solar Panels

What may have been a crazy idea a few years ago it turns into a project in the netherlands.

Growing crops under solar panels.

Farming crops under solar panels a process called agrivoltaics can boost food production water savings and the efficiency of electricity production researchers report. Photo courtesy of greg barron gafford a first run at a salsa garden of cilantro pepper and tomato was awesome barron gafford says. In a future world leafy vegetables may not be grown in rows of crops under the sun. The mass of peppers they produced however tripled under the solar panels.

Instead they may be grown indoors beneath tinted semi transparent solar panels that will allow farmers to grow. The jalapeños on the other hand took up 11 less co 2 under the panels showing that they missed the extra sunlight. At an arid arizona research site crops produce under solar panels needed half as much water as those grown in the open. The plants seem to love the modulated.